[OSM-talk] Adding Addresses to OSM

[Tom Chance]

On Wednesday 13 September 2006 13:44, Michael Robinson wrote:
> Collecting address data should be a joke when compared to collecting GPS
> data.  Just walk/drive around to each house's driveway and take down their
> street, number, and coordinates.

Urm, that sounds like *far* more work to me. Nip down a street on bike and 
note down the street name, versus slowly taking down the numbers and coords 
for a suitable range of buildings on foot. That would take *forever* in a 
major town!

For the moment I've been doing postcodes of pubs in Reading, whose coords I 
already note down. That's fairly easy, but unless there were hundreds of 
people helping I wouldn't want to collect address data by hand!

That reminds me, must add more pub postcodes to freethepostcode...

Regards,
Tom

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